John Bradley

You can also "Bounce to track..." in the Tracks menu above the track pane. Might be more convenient if you have multiple clips on a given track.

Fwiw, I use ISOL8 from TB Pro Audio. Does this and some other useful things. Free.

https://www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/ISOL8.html

3 hours ago, abacab said:

Apparently the XLN license activation is tied to the machine ID. This changes with every Windows 10 version upgrade, i.e. 1903, 1909, 2004, etc.

Maybe they should use Pace iLok instead? I have had no issues with that!

Or they could do whatever nearly everybody else does. I don't know exactly what that is mind you, only that I have a lot of paid s/w from Arturia, iZotope, IKM, and NI, (not to mention Adobe CC), and none of them ever periodically lose their authorization, despite the semiannual Win10 updates.

Just XLN. It's quite irritating.

On 6/26/2020 at 5:50 PM, Lynn said:

Count me as a member of your fan club.

Awesome. It's been 35 years since I've had a really good fan!

Ya ain't seen nothing yet. I've got over 80 of these things queued up, and only a handful are too 'personal' (read: embarassingly bad) to release/inflict. And I try to complete a new one every week or so.

11 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

Keep it up '80's man!!! I'm right there with ya.

It's a great rendition and you have a touch with this.

There's a bit of sibilance on the vocals in spots. "Mistaken"  "Speak"   I highly recomment Oeksound Soothe, it would fit in well with your other toys.

Thanks! Regarding the sibilance, I almost certainly had Neutron 2's de-esser enabled and dialed in to something deliberate. It's a tradeoff between getting the S's to behave and killing the air, and I probably err more towards perserving the air. Some people are bass-heads, I'm all about the high-freqs. Though I acknowledge the possibility of partial deafness after being in various bands for 40 years.

11 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

I do like how your posts give the background on your tools, and "Ozone 8 doing whatever it felt like doing" was pretty epic!

I would cut the intro or at least cut the high pitched quick filtered synth up top, it opens your effort and makes me think "video game" but that's just me. I think your effort has more weight and substance than an intro with "bleep blurp bleep" signifies.

I'm always interested to hear what gear folks use to make their tracks, so I offer the info for any other "yes, but how does it work" people like me.

When I'm 'done' with a mix, or at least ready to stick a fork in it, I slap Ozone 8 on the master, tell it to shoot for "CD, Medium intensity", and let it do whatever it wants. I might tweak the results a bit, but generally I find the changes pretty subtle other than the Limiter, so I assume it knows what it's doing. I do not.

The intro... well, that's what the original song does, and it's only 4 bars before a the groove kicks in. Good enough for New Order, good enough for me!

11 hours ago, Kevin Walsh said:

You definitely have something going on with you 80's covers, really enjoyed it. And my wife really likes this. She spent 80's in dance clubs so she knows good 80's music. 

You and your wife wouldn't happen to buy millions of copies of any song you like, would you? If so, maybe I could actually 'make it' in the music biz! 

Arturia has this very annoying 'feature' where the first time you load up one of their instruments or effects it shows a "hey, want to see the tutorial" dialog box. I've seen this effectively prevent the plug-in from doing whatever it's supposed to do and prevent it from loading up the DAW-supplied settings. 

Very irritating when you have a bunch of their things scattered in FX bins  or the Synth rack across a project. Particularly if you transfer a project over from your main studio computer to a playback-only machine where you're unlikely to have opened any of the plug-ins in a long time.

The solution is to open each plug-in (luckily, not each instance of each plug-in), click the "no, I don't need a freakin' tutorial" and close them. Then close the project (without saving), and reload the project. Should be good to go.

Until the next time they update their stuff...

"Greetings, 'uhh Clem'."

"What the...? My name's not Clem."

"We're sorry, this ride is now closed"

"Closed? Man, I've been waiting 10 minutes to talk to the President... Hey Paulo, I think he broke the President!"

Bought and paid-for software of any significant complexity is observably getting more unstable and crashy as endless piles of new code are added on top of old code that no one understands any longer. And that's from reputable companies that at least on paper would like their stuff to work perfectly.

The last thing I'm going to do is 'save money' by buying ersatz software that almost certainly comes with trojans, keyloggers, and ransomware as an exciting value-add. If they don't just steal the money (and more?) and deliver nothing whatsoever.

At least Adobe CC is up front about being ransomware!

Blue Monday '88

Another one from the '80s, because as a gentleman of a certain age, that's the music I like the best.

Though for what it's worth, I'd never heard this song until a few years ago.

Technical data: Got to play with lots of toys on this one.

Drums: Session Drummer 3 doing the basic hat/snare/kick pattern

Percussion elements: 2getheraudio's CL4P for both the claps and the echoed 'big claps' that show up every now and then, TX16Wx doing a 16th high-hat, Rapture Pro adding some echoed toms, K1CK and TX16Wx doing the high-pitched synth drums at the beginning of the song, another TX16Wx doing the cowbells that enter in verse 3, and a pair of free-floating samples for the explosion that kicks off verse 3.

Bass: IKM's MODO BASS doing the quarter notes down low, with an Arturia MINI doing the octave bounce.

Synths: Arturia's Prophet for the opening 'squeaky' synth and the 'chiffy' synth solo that appears before the first drum break. Arturia Jupiter 8 for the analog strings, the Mini again for the arpeggio that enters half-way through verse 1, CMI for the 'aahhs', and Pigments for the reverse sweep during the first drum break. 

Guitars: The baritone guitar was played at normal pitch, and octave-downed, distorted, and doubled with a bit of normal-pitch guitar in BIAS FX.  The clean one is just a compressed+chorused strat, also done in BIAS FX.

Effects: normal ProChannel stuff and BREVERB, a couple instances of Arturia's ETERNITY and MEMORY-BRIGADE delays, Izotope TRASH 2 on the aforementioned "high pitched synth drums", Izotope Nectar 2 and 2getheraudio ST3REO on the lead vox. The background vox (including doubling of the 'aahs') were processed through Izotope VocalSynth and 2getheraudio's RE4ORMFX to add auto-panning and filter animation. Ozone 8 on the main bus, doing whatever it felt like doing.

Melodyne Studio 4 on the vox, for obvious reasons.

Thanks!

I only do covers, because I'm an engineer at heart; gotta tear everything apart and see how it works!

I typically don't do guitar/bass/drums songs (unless they have a lot of guitar parts). I can just do those in my band without involving Cakewalk. What I really like doing is sound design - making my own synth patches and/or fx chains to approximate the sounds on the original, using things I've literally got lying around the house.

But yeah, Submarines was on a whole different level. Has around 20 tracks of just synths and samplers, way more than anything else I've assembled. Lots of one-shot sounds that play for maybe 5 seconds over the course of a 5 minute song.

As for the singing... thanks. I've believe I've been blessed with a reasonably pleasant-sounding tone; it just doesn't reliably hit, or stay on, the desired notes. Useless for live work (not that it stops me) but something that can be fixed with modern technology.

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

I stopped getting BSOD with 4.63.24 if I use CbB to change the ASIO buffer size.... I don't do it that often though.

You're a braver man than I am — I get so rattled by BSODs that I don't dare provoke them!

And yet they still want me to spend $149 to upgrade from the Legacy Bundle (with the Odyssey) to KORG Collection 2.

So I could buy the Triton all by itself for $199, or, because I own everything they've released prior to the Triton, I can get it for $50 off. And that's not been affected by this sale at all, as far as I can tell. I'm sure a Triton is a nice thing, but that's a significant pile of money that could be used towards UVI Falcon, KOMPLETE, or some other high-ticket synth package that I'm unlikely to buy anytime soon.

It's as if they don't want to take my money! Which, I suppose I should thank them.

Anyone have any experience with the Steinberg UR22C? Has USB 3.1 SuperSpeed technology (which could be so much marketing wank), and does latency-free monitoring with built-in DSP effects ala the UAD stuff if you're into that.

58 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Everyone will recommend the interface they have chosen, that doesn't mean it is the right one for you.

Not necessarily! I would not recommend anything in the Focusrite Scarlett range at this point. The hardware's fine, but they've more or less given up on driver development. Releases come out rarely, and don't quite work.

I currently have my choice of 4.63.24 (which BSODs if I switch buffer size while CbB is running), the no longer available 4.64.15 beta (which started BSODing on boot at some point), and the current 4.65.5 release, which occasionally BSODs and exhibits some other odd behavior.

I went back to 4.63.24, because at least the behavior is deterministic.

It's gettin' hot in hare, so take off all your clothes...

Preferences | MIDI | Playback and Recording - make sure "Channel Aftertouch" is ticked . 

5 hours ago, Bapu said:

I want to replace my current SATA Samples drive. So where can I get an 8TB SSD samples drive for about $200? Ok, maybe $300. 

As you probably know, you can't. Not even close. 

Current prices are around $170 for a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo $400 for 2TB, and $600 for 4TB.

$200 is roughly the price for an 8TB mechanical drive (3.5" internal).

Paraphrasing Hitchhiker's Guide: "In America, the people would sit on the beautiful little buns, whose backs would snap instantly. But they continued to do so anyway."

On 6/19/2020 at 3:33 PM, batsbrew said:

my only issue is that the guitars all sound a bit fuzzy,

and the overall level seems too hot, like it was mastered too hot.

But the important thing is, IS EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE? 🤪

I mean, it's not a modern mix if it isn't pummelling the listener into submission.

As for the guitars, something something BIAS FX something... 

Anyway, thanks for the comments guys. Feedback is always appreciated!

So... if you fried up a rabbit and put it on a roll, would that be a Bun-Bun?

And if you ordered the extra-large version of same, would that be a Super Bun-Bun?

Hmmm....

Downloaded the demo of Largo, and while I was there grabbed the demos of PPG3 and Nave.

Not impressed. I suppose they all sounded nice enough, but the UI! The preset browser defied my attempts to change presets. A single click does nothing, and a double-click lets you rename the preset. Very old-school with banks and whatnot. (I'm coming from the perspective of somone used to Arturia's excellent preset browsers, where all patches are in a single giant list, and you can search, filter by categories, easily move up/down through the search results, etc. It's all very civilized.)

And the chrome look: needlessly fancy and hard to read. Compare to the plain, but eminently usable UI of the Valhalla plugins.

The PPG3 demo was even less intuitive. And Nave was just ugly.

Oh, and none of the demos created entries in the Settings | Apps list, and only one of them left a "uninstall" shortcut in the start menu, so cleaning up the mess was slightly irritating.

Wouldn't buy any of the 3 at $25, let alone their crazy-high 'normal' prices. 

Again, maybe they can make some great sounds, and maybe with some reading one can figure out how to use them. But the first impression was godawful.

12 minutes ago, Fleer said:

I will say this: it’s an exemplary wave table synth and it does what Blofeld does, more or less, which is why I don’t go after digital hardware anymore. I mean, you can get the same thing in software (plus a controller if you’re so inclined). 
Case in point: the Blofeld hardware module is $500. You can get Largo for one twentieth of that princely sum.

I hear that. I see these synths (both keyboard and desktop versions) being demoed at NAMM, or on Sonicstate, and I'm like "great: make a VST version of same for <$100 or so and get back to me".  Most recently the KORG Wavestate. (I have the old Wavestation vst, but the new synth seems much better... which could be just an example of "gives good demo".)

Not a keyboard player; no desire to own any hardware. I'm one of those do-it-all-in-the-box guys.

20 minutes ago, Fleer said:

À plugin against gas? 
TMI. 

They already sell those at Eden Fantasys. Some of them even have tails attached!

"I like big buns and I can't deny..."

You could always Process | Apply Effect | MIDI Effects... to freeze whatever changes you've introduced via Quantize effect, and then go fix up the areas that need to be straighter, or whatever.

Also, the Apply Effect command only applies to selected clips, not the entire track, so you could split the bits that you want effected differently into their own clips, and leave them out of the freeze. The Apply will remove the fx from the bin, so they'll revert to their 'as recorded' state. You could then drop a Quantize effect with different settings and just apply it to those segments.

Nowhere near as convenient as having automatable paramters on the midi fx, but it is what it is.

...and also what scook suggested about doing per-clip fx instead of at the track level.

1 hour ago, Matthew Sorrels said:

This happens often with EastWest.  They rarely/almost never put upgrades on sale.  So several times a year some of their products with upgrades actually become cheaper to buy new due to the endless sales they do offer on full priced products.  With the subscription focus and since you can't re-sell their products, they don't seem to care.

So they're pretty much the anti-Native Instruments.